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Vehicle-to-everything (V2X) is considered as one of the most important applications of future wireless communication networks. However, the Doppler effect caused by the vehicle mobility may seriously deteriorate the performance of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-04 Junqiang Cheng , Chenglu Jia , Hui Gao , Wenjun Xu , Zhisong Bie

Orthogonal delay-Doppler division multiplexing~(ODDM) modulation has recently been regarded as a promising technology to provide reliable communications in high-mobility situations. Accurate and low-complexity channel estimation is one of…

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In cellular communication systems, it is conventional to assume the absence of a line of sight (LoS) path between the users and their associated access points (APs). This assumption however becomes questionable in the context of recent…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Sudarshan Mukherjee , Ribhu Chopra

Cell-free Massive MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) refers to a distributed Massive MIMO system where all the access points (APs) cooperate to coherently serve all the user equipments (UEs), suppress inter-cell interference and mitigate…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Giovanni Interdonato , Hien Quoc Ngo , Pål Frenger , Erik G. Larsson

Orthogonal Time-Frequency Space modulation stands out as a promising waveform for 6G and beyond wireless communication systems, offering superior performance over conventional methods, particularly in high-mobility scenarios and dispersive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-27 Emir Aslandogan , Haci Ilhan

This letter is the first part of a three-part tutorial on orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation, which is a promising candidate waveform for future wireless networks. This letter introduces and compares two popular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhiqiang Wei , Shuangyang Li , Weijie Yuan , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

The orthogonal time frequency space with index modulation (OTFS-IM) offers flexible tradeoffs between spectral efficiency (SE) and bit error rate (BER) in doubly selective fading channels. While OTFS-IM schemes demonstrated such potential,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Kehan Huang , Min Qiu , Jinhong Yuan

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation offers superior robustness to high-mobility channels compared to conventional orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) waveforms. However, its explicit delay-Doppler (DD) domain…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-03 Junyao Zheng , Chung-Hsuan Tung , Yuncheng Yao , Nishant Mehrotra , Sandesh Mattu , Zhenzhou Qi , Danyang Zhuo , Robert Calderbank , Tingjun Chen

In Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulation, information symbols are embedded in the delay-Doppler (DD) domain instead of the time-frequency (TF) domain. n order to ensure compatibility with existing OFDM systems (e.g. 4G LTE),…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Saif Khan Mohammed

By harnessing the delay-Doppler (DD) resource domain, orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) substantially improves the communication performance under high-mobility scenarios by maintaining quasi-time-invariant channel characteristics.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Jie Chen , Xianbin Wang , Lajos Hanzo

In this paper, we consider the uplink channel estimation phase and downlink data transmission phase of cell-free millimeter wave (mmWave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with low-capacity fronthaul links and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-01 In-soo Kim , Mehdi Bennis , Junil Choi

Cellular networks of massive MIMO base-stations employing TDD/OFDM and relying on uplink training for both downlink and uplink transmission are viewed as an attractive candidate for 5G deployments, as they promise high area spectral and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-07 Zekun Zhang , Chenwei Wang , Haralabos Papadopoulos

Cell-free massive MIMO is a key 6G technology, offering superior spectral and energy efficiency. However, its dense deployment of low-cost access points (APs) makes hardware impairments unavoidable. While narrowband impairments are…

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In this paper, we investigate the impacts of transmitter and receiver windows on the performance of orthogonal time-frequency space (OTFS) modulation and propose window designs to improve the OTFS channel estimation and data detection…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zhiqiang Wei , Weijie Yuan , Shuangyang Li , Jinhong Yuan , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) is a novel framework that processes modulation symbols via a time-independent channel characterized by the delay-Doppler domain. The conventional waveform, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-20 Zhou Zhou , Lingjia Liu , Jiarui Xu , Robert Calderbank

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has been proposed to meet the demand for reliable communication in high-mobility scenarios for future wireless networks. However, in multi-user OTFS systems, conventional embedded pilot…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ruizhe Wang , Hong Ren , Cunhua Pan , Ruisong Weng , Jiangzhou Wang

Wireless communications over fast fading channels are challenging, requiring either frequent channel tracking or complicated signaling schemes such as orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation. In this paper, we propose…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Hongyang Zhang , Xiaojing Huang , J. Andrew Zhang

In high-mobility scenarios with time-frequency doubly-selective channels, existing semantic communication systems suffer significant performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a semantic communication framework that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-29 Yu Zhang , Jiarui Yan , Yue Liu , Tenglun Ke , Yimeng Wang , Zhijin Qin

Orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation has recently emerged as an effective waveform to tackle the linear time-varying channels. In OTFS literature, approximately constant channel gains for every group of samples within each OTFS…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Danilo Lelin Li , Arman Farhang

The fundamental concepts and challenges of orthogonal time frequency space (OTFS) modulation have been reviewed in Part I of this three-part tutorial. In this second part, we provide an overview of the state-of-the-art transceiver designs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Shuangyang Li , Weijie Yuan , Zhiqiang Wei , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire